Mainspring by Jay Lake

Ten people attended the discussion of Jay Lake’s Mainspring. Everybody except 2 people started the book. 6 people finished it, 2 more were planning to finish. 8 people had read something by Jay Lake before.

Mainspring is set on a world that looks a lot like our Earth, except it’s literally a clockwork mechanism. The gears along the Earth’s equatorial wall mesh with those of the Earth’s orbital track as the planet travels around the Sun. Inside the